From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 26 20:21:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00794 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 20:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00789 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 20:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA20476; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 23:21:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA08832; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 23:21:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 23:21:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: Michael Smith cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exchange vs. Notes In-Reply-To: <199706080140.LAA16645@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Large organisations like major telcos take a long time to adapt to any > sort of change, but ultimately they are the ones with the capital, the > advertising bulk, and the infrastructure required to out-compete > everyone else. Don't get me wrong, I don't _like_ the thought, I just > think it's inevitable. The Internet provider owned by my telco provides me with much better service than I ever got from any ISP... Only complaints would be no IMAP connections, and that they don't tend to mirror various public ftp sites (which io.org, mentioned >once on these lists was good at, if nothing else...). Both complaints are only marginally relevant... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk